[Question] Display header on each page of CV

[dmohns]

Updating from an ancient version of AltaCV I encountered a small issue. In earlier versions (prior to paracol) it was easy to display the header on each page of the CV by simply calling \makecvheader on each page.

With paracol I couldn't find a simple way to achieve the same result. Any ideas how this could be achieved?

[liantze]

If you prefer to control exactly where each page ends, you can issue an \end{paracol}, then add \clearpage\makecvheader and start the two-column layout again with another \begin{paracol}{2}.

Or if you prefer to use just one single paracol environment throughout the document and let paracol handle the column/page switching automatically, then consider using \makecvheader in a page header instead, by adding these lines before \begin{document}:

% Add includehead so that the "top" margin will be from the top of the page header 
% to the top edge of the paper, and specify a large enough "head" height to 
% accommodate your \makecvheader material
\geometry{left=1.25cm,right=1.25cm,top=1.5cm,includehead,head=80pt,
bottom=1.5cm,columnsep=1.2cm}

% Load the fancyhdr package
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

% put \makecvheader in the page header
\fancyhf{}\renewcommand{\headrule}{}
\fancyhead[C]{\makecvheader}

% Activate the "fancy" page style. 
% (by default altacv.cls would have set it to empty)
\AddToHook{begindocument/before}{\pagestyle{fancy}}

[dmohns]

If you prefer to control exactly where each page ends, you can issue an \end{paracol}, then add \clearpage\makecvheader and start the two-column layout again with another \begin{paracol}{2}.

Oh, of course 😇 I'm already controlling page switching manually inside each of the columns. So, this solves it quite nicely. Thanks!